Generally this whole entire mining operation was first discovered by a prospector named Roscoe Hiltz who was known as an employee of the Springer Sturgeon Gold Mines Ltd. In addition to this he had additionally diamond drilled the property in 1940, that uncovered a small Barite deposit zone. Further so the company would conduct more exploration procedures when they had decided to use a unique procedure of geophysical exploration techniques. Much of this became establish because the Springer Sturgeon Gold Mines Ltd. had wanted to test the anomalies within this mining zone.. As this became conducted it soon had intersected a high a very high gravity signature that soon outlined the Walton Ore Body. By this time the company would also start to further explore this area when a huge amount of diamond drilling became performed by the company. This type of exploration procedures would also give geologists a better understanding in regards to the shape and outline of the pit. By the following year in 1941, the Walton Barite mining operation was officially being developed by subsidiary company, and it's team of miners. This company alone was identified as the Canadian Industrial Minerals who took charge of developing this mining zone for Springer Sturgeon Gold Mines Ltd.

Another huge amount of explorations would continue to take place twenty years after the mine was first discovered. Much of the working within this time period would also be mainly confined to underground methods as the open pit operation was also producing ore. In 1956, the Nova Scotia Department of mines would additionally commence it's own diamond drilling phase that encountered a base metal deposit. Much of this geological zone had included its own base metals such as Lead, Gold, Copper, and zinc ore-bodies. Most of this newly uncovered ore-body had also place major construction phases towards the much needed infrastructure to run this operation at full force. In general being this whole entire development phase was reported to have been paid for by the extracted Barite Deposit from underground, and open pit operations. Almost all the infrastructure would also included it's very own separation mill for the base metal deposit that was uncovered below the Barite Ore-Body. Company officials would also place major lateral development stages in order to intersect this metal base occurrence that was discovered by diamond drilling. At the time the workings of the Walton Metal Base Mine we're known to have continued to a depth of 690 feet below the shaft collar. During this time period much of the mine workings we're now being leased to another mining firm known as the Magnet Cove Barium Corporation that was a subsidiary of Dressers Industries Inc. of Dallas, Texas. More changes soon had taken place when Magnet Cove Barium had became apart of its sole own company called Dresser Minerals in 1967.

More devastation would soon take place in 1970 that had pretty much closed down all mining operations at the Walton Base Metal Mine Project. Generally this became caused because the engineer had avoided direct orders of a geologist that informed him not to blast into the shear zone. Instead the engineer had decided to blast into a face that encounter a shear zone, and the mine working we're rapidly being flooded in by water. During this time a huge amount of efforts soon had taken place when the team of miners had try to use grout in order to fill this massive gap from the blast but it was rather to big. Company officials soon decided to try installing water pumps in order to keep the working from flooding. As the Pumps had ran for several months it soon became evident that the water had rapidly change from fresh to barkish water. This was another huge problem as the shear zone had expanded several kilometers towards the sea. Nevertheless, the flooding soon had worsen when it was to expensive to operate the pumps, and the company decided to fully abandon mining operations below the barite deposit. However, it was still evident that production of base metal, and Barite had continued to take place during the time period of abandoning mining operations below the Barite ore body. This production had continued till 1978, when the last load of barite was taken, and the base metal deposit was now exhausted. Even the crown pillars became robbed after the company wanted to take all the base metal, and barite it could extract from this operation. The underground workings had also been connected with a ventilation shaft that was sunken to a depth of 350 feet, and continued to a sump for another 20 feet. More so the very first level of this mining operation was rather located on the 270 foot level as it was only accessed by the ventilation shaft. Even more development had soon continued on the second level that was stationed and cut on the mines 350 foot section. Production from the 350 foot level was mainly taken from a very long drift that connected with a new geological formation of shale, and siltstone. All development on the third level was taken place on the mine's 620 foot level, it was also rather expanded by a long drift section just like the second level. Another level that was determined as the fourth level became stationed, and cut on the mines 690 foot level that became expanded by another long drift section.

Production from the Walton Base Metal Mine was also considered for producing 90% of all Barite in Canada alone. In all production the mine it self had produce significant amounts of Barite that ended up totaling 4.3 million tonnes that became processed, and another 1.4 million tonnes is still within this deposit to this very day. As it stands the present owner is looking to further explore this mining operation in hopes to bring this production back to life once again. .